Special Education: Fam,Schl&Intrprof Partnerships

Takes a family, school and inter-professional collaborative approach to understanding and enhancing equity and well-being for children, youth, families, and the workforce. In-service and pre-service students from across professions (child welfare, health/mental, education) will build toolkit of strategies for healthy partnerships that build resilience and strong professional practices.

Open to Degree and PACE students; Asynchronous online

This course is part of the graduate course sequence related to Resilience‐Based Approaches with families, schools, and communities. EDSP 6320 will focus on the collaborative and interprofessional application of foundational content learned in EDSP 6300. Students in this course will engage in an interprofessional approach aimed to enhance well‐being for children, youth, families, and their own selves. At the end of this semester, in‐service and pre‐service students from across professions (child welfare, health/mental health, and schools) will have built a toolbox that they will be able to use to effectively participate in trauma‐informed collaboration with other professionals and most importantly will impact children, youth and families who have experienced trauma and adversity.

1. Class Participation/Online Discussion 2. Reflective Action Journal 3. Trauma Informed Action Project (end of semester project)

We use a grading system called a Labor Based Grading Contract in this class which removes grades from the classroom on an assignment basis, but still results in a final course grade. It encourages a critical and reflective space for you to engage with the course material, lower stress, accentuate equity, and emphasize learning over grading. More recently contract grading has been cited as best assessment practices for creating anti‐racist classrooms (Inoue, 2019). The contract grading system will be based on the amount of work you choose to complete for the class. If you complete an assignment you receive the points. Final Course Grades are recorded as letter grades.